Search & Reunion, Find Birth Parents or Adopted Child

If you’re seeking an adoption plan for a child, you’ll likely be seeking an adoption center or adoption agency to help you with this decision a

It was around three o’clock in the afternoon on Monday, May 14, 2018, the day after Mother’s Day in 2018. I was in my office when I received a

Gladney reFRAMED Podcast talks about multiple kinds of experiences in adoption. What additional emotions does adoption create, for the adoptee and

She’s a country singer, a Grammy award-winning songwriter, a backup vocalist for Christopher Cross, a wife, a mother, and an adoptee. Marcia Ram

For this article, I asked to interview my foster sister, Dawn, to tell her adoption story. Dawn is a 38-year-old African American woman who was ado

There was only one piece of advice I was ever given when I learned I was about to be a mom.  I received this advice from a few different people, b

I never thought I was any different than the other kids. Being adopted was so normal to me that I just figured there were lots of kids in my class

Finding Your Roots What if there was a way for children adopted internationally to reconnect with their roots? The Gladney Center for Adoption and

When Susan Welch’s older brother took her out for dinner shortly after her mother died, she did not expect anything unusual. Little did she know

If you or a loved one was placed for adoption chances are, at some point, you will consider what it may be like to reconnect with them and wonder h

While adoption is a beautiful way to provide a family to a child who needs one and an opportunity for families wishing to grow in a nontraditional

My name is Rebecca Tillou, I am an adoptee, and I searched for my birth mom in 2012. Throughout the searching process, I learned that obituaries ca

There have been multiple reality shows and movies over the years that have portrayed these cheerful and wonderful adoption reunions. These are the

Whether you are an expectant mother considering adoption for your unborn child or a woman who placed her child for adoption decades ago, one simple

After 30 years of marriage, eight kids (six of whom were adopted), and 25 years of foster care, we were done. Then, we got the call to take in the

How do you love someone you don’t really know? How can you miss someone you’ve never spent time with? While this can be difficult to explain, i